 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...composition. Dryden is sometimes ve'hemcnt and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Drydcn's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities,...Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and leveled by the roller. den. It is not to be inferred, that of this poetical vigor Pope had only a little,... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - English language - 1863 - 470 pages
...composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement anil rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden'e page is a natural field, rising into inequalities,...vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, und levelled by the roller. " Of genins, — that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1865 - 426 pages
...predecessor. The style of Dryden is capricious and varied, that of Pope is cautious and uniform ; Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind, Pope constrains his mind...shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genins, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1866 - 654 pages
...labours should survive him. — DBVDKM : dedication ofth* jSneid. VOL. II. 14* prehensive specnlation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more...sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, nniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...predecessor. The style of Dryden is capricious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his...Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and leveled by the roller. 9. Of genius, — that power which constitutes a poet — that quality without... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 610 pages
...predecessor. The style of Dryden is capricious and varied; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind; Pope constrains his mind...Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and leveled by the roller. 5. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet, that quality without which... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - Demonology - 1869 - 486 pages
...predecessor. The style of Dryden is capricious and varied, that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind, Pope constrains his mind...velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by th« roller. ' [" Addison was so eager to be the drat name, that he and his frieud Sir Richard Steele... | |
 | William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - English literature - 1870 - 482 pages
...his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners....rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden' s page is a natural field rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1870 - 382 pages
...JOHNSON. THE style of Dryden is capricious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his...Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and leveled by the roller. If the flights of Dryden are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - English language - 1870 - 396 pages
...attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope. * * * Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always...of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shorn by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. * * * If the flights of Dryden, therefore, are higher,... | |
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Pope did not borrow his prose from his predecessor. The style of Dryden is capricious and varied, that of Pope is cautious and uniform; Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind, Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes... 
